If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …
GoddessJ had a wedding shower to attend, so we packed up and took an overnight trip to the shores of Lake Huron. It was interesting… I saw a large number of power-generating windmills, including a couple that were still being put together (the first time I’d seen them close up — they’re freakin’ huge! I …
CAPTCHAs, the automated tests that are meant to prevent spam-bots from overrunning free e-mail services and comment forms, have been defeated. What’s next? Hopefully not something like this… I tried it three times, and only succeeded twice. Statistics also indicate that it wouldn’t work too well — there are less than 30 variations, so even …
After one month of using it, I’m very happy to confirm that SpamBayes (via the ThunderBayes plug-in for Thunderbird) is absolutely as awesome as I’d heard it could be! The scoring is so accurate that I decided a while back to let it automatically delete messages with 100% spam probability as read, so that I …
One of my sisters sent me a very interesting optical-illusion e-mail recently. I enjoyed it quite a bit. But like most such messages that I see, it was forwarded, and had several different headers, and all of the e-mail addresses it had ever been sent to were intact and visible in them. People… please, please, …
After several days of using ThunderBayes/SpamBayes, I’m happy to report that it’s just as awesome as it was rumored to be! 😀 Even better, I’ve been able to fix one of the problems that I had with setting it up (the multiple-accounts bug). I sent the code changes to Daniel Miller, the original ThunderBayes developer, …
Every so often, some company will say something about a virus or antivirus program (such as this), and the comments on it (if allowed) will be filled with an OS flame war. I’ve used PC-based computers since 1989 or thereabouts. In that time, I’ve been attacked by two viruses — one in 1997, a DOS …
As reported yesterday, I’m now using ThunderBayes/SpamBayes to filter spam. I manually classified several hundred recent spam messages, and a roughly-equal number of recent personal (“ham”) messages. So far, it hasn’t had a single false positive on either side, and most of the “unsure” classifications have been of legitimate commercial messages (that do resemble spam …
I received a curious e-mail the other day: Subject: Interested in purchasing textlink Hey I visited your site and contents of your site http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/ got my attention. I am interested in purchasing Text links advertisement on it. If you are interested please inform me. I can make an attractive offer. Thanks, [Name removed] I’ve made …
I’ve pretty much given up posting the spam and scam messages I receive here, because there’s very little new in them, just the same tired rehashes of the same tired fake offers. But this one is notable because it’s one of the few actual “money mule” e-mails I’ve ever gotten. I know I shouldn’t have …
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